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Normalized Digital Surface Model Extraction and Slope Parameter Determination through Region Growing of UAV Data

무인항공기 데이터의 영역 확장법 적용을 통한 정규수치표면모델 추출 및 경사도 파라미터 설정

  • Yeom, Junho (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Lee, Wonhee (School of Convergence & Fusion System Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kim, Taeheon (Dept. of Geospatial Information, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Han, Youkyung (School of Convergence & Fusion System Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
  • Received : 2019.11.20
  • Accepted : 2019.12.27
  • Published : 2019.12.31
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Abstract

NDSM (Normalized Digital Surface Model) is key information for the detailed analysis of remote sensing data. Although NDSM can be simply obtained by subtracting a DTM (Digital Terrain Model) from a DSM (Digital Surface Model), in case of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) data, it is difficult to get an accurate DTM due to high resolution characteristics of UAV data containing a large number of complex objects on the ground such as vegetation and urban structures. In this study, RGB-based UAV vegetation index, ExG (Excess Green) was used to extract initial seed points having low ExG values for region growing such that a DTM can be generated cost-effectively based on high resolution UAV data. For this process, local window analysis was applied to resolve the problem of erroneous seed point extraction from local low ExG points. Using the DSM values of seed points, region growing was applied to merge neighboring terrain pixels. Slope criteria were adopted for the region growing process and the seed points were determined as terrain points in case the size of segments is larger than 0.25 ㎡. Various slope criteria were tested to derive the optimized value for UAV data-based NDSM generation. Finally, the extracted terrain points were evaluated and interpolation was performed using the terrain points to generate an NDSM. The proposed method was applied to agricultural area in order to extract the above ground heights of crops and check feasibility of agricultural monitoring.

정규수치표면모델(NDSM: Normalized Digital Surface Model)은 원격탐사데이터의 상세 분석을 위한 핵심 적인 자료로 사용된다. 지상기준높이인 정규수치표면모델을 생성하기 위한 가장 간단한 방법은 수치표면모델(DSM: Digital Surface Model)에서 수치지형모델(DTM: Digital Terrain Model)을 차분하는 것이지만, 무인항공기 데이터의 경우 높은 해상도의 특성상 식생, 도심 구조물 등 많은 수의 복잡한 지형지물을 포함하고 있어 정확한 수치지형모델을 추출하기 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 무인항공기 데이터의 고해상도 특성을 잘 살리고 비용효율적인 수치지형모델 생성이 가능하도록 RGB 기반 식생 지수인 ExG (Excess Green)를 이용하여 낮은 ExG 값을 갖는 영역 확장법의 초기 시드점을 선정하였다. 이때 국소적으로 낮은 식생지수 값을 갖는 초기 시드점이 잘못 추출되는 문제를 해결하기 위하여 지역적 윈도우 분석을 적용하였다. 이후, 해당 위치의 수치표면모델값을 바탕으로 영역 확장법을 적용하여 이웃하는 지면 화소들을 병합하였다. 영역 확장법 적용을 위해 경사도 파라미터가 사용되었으며 최종적으로 병합된 세그먼트의 크기가 0.25㎡ 초과일 경우 초기 시드점을 지면점으로 결정하였다. 다양한 경사도 파라미터 값을 설정하여 무인항공기 데이터 기반 정규수치표면모델 생성의 최적 경사도 기준값을 도출하고자 하였다. 최종적으로 추출된 지면점들에 대한 정확도 평가를 수행하였으며 지면점들에 보간법을 적용하여 정규수치표면모델을 생성하고 제안 기법을 농업지역에 적용하여 농작물의 지상기준높이 추출 및 농업 모니터링 가능성을 검증하였다.

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